I upgraded rivendell to Fedora 12 … but couldn’t get Mailman to work anymore. I suspect some kind of Python issue. I’ve saved the error information and will investigate it again.

Luckily the backup was solid … so I was able to recover the system without too much trouble.

This morning I got email from Marty, who’s websites I host, saying that his sites were down.

I investigated and found that there was about 300+ instances of the httpd process (this is the program that is the core of the Apache web server). Unfortunately there was no error information in the error log.

Since I had no diagnostics to track down the problem, I decided to restore to the backup and try again later.

The restore went well, and both systems are now back up to their previous condition.